Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mummies,
Kurtis Blow,
World's Most,
Sparks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Accadde A,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
New Age Steppers,
the Human League,
Public Enemy,
Boredoms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Golliwogs,
F. McDonald,
Brand Nubian,
Sister Nancy,
Patti Smith,
Ohio Players,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Von Mondo,
Gerry Rafferty,
DNA,
Bush Tetras,
Loose Ends,
Altered Images,
the Germs,
Eric Dolphy,
Radio Birdman,
The United States of America,
The Move,
Sarah Menescal,
Leonard Cohen,
Angry Samoans,
Wasted Youth,
Index,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Animal Collective,
The American Breed,
Can,
Audionom,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cramps,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Prince Buster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flipper,
Monks,
Guru Guru,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Smooth,
Goldenarms,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.